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*** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Cardiff City, Sunday 22nd September***

Very happy with the win but wish we had won more comfortably. It always makes you restless having to wait so long for a goal. We completely dominated the match and should have scored a few goals much earlier. But our lack of killer instinct in front of goal again let us down. We made the Cardiff goalie look like world class when in fact most of our shots went direct at him. Wish we will be more composed and clinical in front of goal. And it is a bit worrying to see us lacking a consistent goal scorer.

Our crucial goal was made in Argentina and finished in Brazil ! Nice to see Lamela and Paulinho combining to get us the winning goal. Big credit to Paulinho for the way he scored the goal. It was a cheeky back-heel at a crucial moment. Holtby and Lamela deserve due credit for creating the chance for Paulinho. After creating so many chances, it would have been hugely disappointing if we had failed to score that one. Disappointingly, most of our shots went direct to the goalie.
Getting really annoyed with Sigurdsson for always hitting the post. Thought he had improved when he scored against Norwich but he was back to his old habit against Cardiff. Surely, Sigurdsson must be doing something wrong for always hitting the post or woodwork. Hope he will improve on his finishing. Was expecting more from Townsend but he didn't do much to help our attack.

Being our top striker, Soldado should have done better with his chances instead of shooting direct at the goalie. He is now without a goal in 3 matches. Hope he finds his first goal from open play in the league soon. Was Defoe injured or what ? Wish we had Defoe to call upon instead of the inexperienced Kane who didn't do much. Frankly, would have brought on Adebayor instead of Kane. Just can't see our inexperienced strikers ever scoring in a competitive match for us.

Due credit to our defence for keeping yet another clean sheet. But we did have our fair of luck. Thought Lloris was very lucky not to get send off for handling the ball just outside the penalty area. Some refs would have given the red card. Fortunately, this ref decided to give the benefit of the doubt to Lloris. Naughton was guilty for this stupid back pass but Vertonghen should have reacted faster instead of ball-watching. Also thought Dawson was taking big risks with his rash tackles so far from our goal area. Despite all this, Cardiff didn't look like scoring which should be a credit to our defending.

Nice to see us being joint top of the league with Arsenal. But we will always be at a disadvantage as long as we don't score more goals. Hope we will improve our goal scoring as the season progresses.
 
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This is apparently from Holtby's Facebook account. Looking at that pic, the players, especially Holtby, must have had a wild celebration inside the changing room.:lol:
 
For just over 90 minutes, Andre Villas-Boas would have been wondering if he'd somehow angered the footballing gods.

Before Paulinho's late, late winner at the Cardiff City Stadium, Tottenham had hammered the Welsh side's goal for the entire game, with 28 efforts – 11 of those on target – and yet looked set to leave with only a share of the spoils thanks to David Marshall's inspired display between the Bluebirds' sticks.

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Erik Lamela grabbed his first assist in the Premier League after replacing Gylfi Sigurdsson with 20 minutes remaining.

But yet again there was a demonstration of Kyle Walker's attacking influence in this top-four hunting Spurs side. For the fourth time in five games this season the England man completed the game's highest number of passes overall and, for the third time, in the attacking third too. Against Cardiff he also created 3 chances for his team-mates.

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http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/sunday-analysis-what-stats-zone-taught-us-today-220913
 
Spurs7891 said:
Our crucial goal was made in Argentina and finished in Brazil ! Nice to see Lamela and Paulinho combining to get us the winning goal. Big credit to Paulinho for the way he scored the goal. It was a cheeky back-heel at a crucial moment. Holtby and Lamela deserve due credit for creating the chance for Paulinho. After creating so many chances, it would have been hugely disappointing if we had failed to score that one. Disappointingly, most of our shots went direct to the goalie.
Getting really annoyed with Sigurdsson for always hitting the post. Thought he had improved when he scored against Norwich but he was back to his old habit against Cardiff. Surely, Sigurdsson must be doing something wrong for always hitting the post or woodwork. Hope he will improve on his finishing. Was expecting more from Townsend but he didn't do much to help our attack.
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mind blow and completely speachless

you surely can not be serious?

First, you criticize players for shooting straight at the keeper, fair enough, but the guy that is desperately trying to beat the keeper, you bash him as well?
 
It is still early days in the revolution since Bale left. But the signs are good.

We used to have many away performances that were just meh. No direction, no pattern, the games would just drift along. Now we have purpose, a game plan, solidity and in the last 2 games ,creativity that really imposes us on the opposition and gives them so much to think about. And i don't even think we've seen the best of it yet.

Cardiff had to work their nuts off just to get any kind of foothold in the game. They had a little period 10 mins before half-time and 5 mins after, but we soon took control again. I think AVB wants us to be powerful (like Jose first chelsea team), it at least guarantees you're in with a chance in every game.

We didn't become desperate or clueless, just kept believing and to get a goal at the death i would imagine gives you more than just 3 points, the team bonding and morale boost must be massive. There are individual errors to look at, but they're easier to cure than a general team/tactics/formation problem.

I think we will look back to the wins against Palace and Swansea as crucial, we ground them out without being spectacular but it has given us a nice start to build on considering the changes AVB is dealing with.
 
Big win yesterday, bearing in mind Cardiff have already taken points off Everton and City, and may well take points off a few more of our rivals.
If you had offered me 12pts from the opening 5 games I would have bitten your hand off, especially with no Bale and a host of new signings needing to 'bed in'.
So quite frankly right now, I'm over the moon.

Although we'll be at Villa tomorrow night, its the match on Saturday I'm really looking forward to. Should be a great atmosphere and a real benchmark test of how well we are doing/progressing. Might be a bit much to expect a victory, but who knows. Cant wait
 
SteveAWOL said:
https://twitter.com/BBCMOTD

  • This is only the second time since the 1960s that Spurs have won four of their opening five games
  • Tottenham have only scored five times this season but have conceded fewer goals than any other side this season (1)
  • Four of Tottenham’s five Premier League games this season have ended 1-0 (W3 L1).
  • Tottenham’s goal came with their 29th and final shot of the game – more than any other team has managed this season
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Interesting stats. You'd have to think with the number of chances we are beginning to create that someone is in for a pasting soon.
 
I love how we've played the last 2 games and with another creative force still to come into the team (lamela) I think the future is bright.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
It is still early days in the revolution since Bale left. But the signs are good.

We used to have many away performances that were just meh. No direction, no pattern, the games would just drift along. Now we have purpose, a game plan, solidity and in the last 2 games ,creativity that really imposes us on the opposition and gives them so much to think about. And i don't even think we've seen the best of it yet.

Cardiff had to work their nuts off just to get any kind of foothold in the game. They had a little period 10 mins before half-time and 5 mins after, but we soon took control again. I think AVB wants us to be powerful (like Jose first chelsea team), it at least guarantees you're in with a chance in every game.

We didn't become desperate or clueless, just kept believing and to get a goal at the death i would imagine gives you more than just 3 points, the team bonding and morale boost must be massive. There are individual errors to look at, but they're easier to cure than a general team/tactics/formation problem.

I think we will look back to the wins against Palace and Swansea as crucial, we ground them out without being spectacular but it has given us a nice start to build on considering the changes AVB is dealing with.
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I think he wants to be powerful but not only that. We could have been powerful last season and gone along with that.

This year though now we are able to control games in a manner that only really top quality teams can do. You don't go to a stadium like that an absolutely dominate if you aren't a top team, tactically intelligent etc.

So pleased that we are. The fact that we are a bunch of powerful ****ers helps back that up, especially winning the ball back as quickly as possible. But we are combining it with finesse and intelligence and I love that.
 
Ganter said:
mind blow and completely speachless

you surely can not be serious?

First, you criticize players for shooting straight at the keeper, fair enough, but the guy that is desperately trying to beat the keeper, you bash him as well?
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I think 7891's posts are computer-generated, and they fail the Turing test.
 
THFC6061 said:
My Match History is all written-up and ready to go (as is the one for Chelsea).

But I think someone else should have the chance of starting the OMT.
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I would start it, but I was hoping for a bit of news on the injury situation first.
 
Jordinho said:
For just over 90 minutes, Andre Villas-Boas would have been wondering if he'd somehow angered the footballing gods.

Before Paulinho's late, late winner at the Cardiff City Stadium, Tottenham had hammered the Welsh side's goal for the entire game, with 28 efforts – 11 of those on target – and yet looked set to leave with only a share of the spoils thanks to David Marshall's inspired display between the Bluebirds' sticks.

spurshots.jpg


Erik Lamela grabbed his first assist in the Premier League after replacing Gylfi Sigurdsson with 20 minutes remaining.

But yet again there was a demonstration of Kyle Walker's attacking influence in this top-four hunting Spurs side. For the fourth time in five games this season the England man completed the game's highest number of passes overall and, for the third time, in the attacking third too. Against Cardiff he also created 3 chances for his team-mates.

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http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/sunday-analysis-what-stats-zone-taught-us-today-220913
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These stats give such a false picture they're ****ing annoying. Believe it or not it was Naughton, yes Naughton, the one who got slaughtered for his two ghastly mistakes, who produced far and away the most telling passes at the other end. Three great crosses, one of which led to Soldado bringing out a great save (but wrongly flagged offside), and two fantastic 40-yard diagonals second half, one to Townsend that led to Sigurdsson striking the crossbar and the latter to Lamela in time added on that led to Paulinho's goal.

Had it not been for Naughton's contribution we would simply not have won that game. :ross:
 
Spur of the moment said:
These stats give such a false picture they're ****ing annoying. Believe it or not it was Naughton, yes Naughton, the one who got slaughtered for his two ghastly mistakes, who produced far and away the most telling passes at the other end. Three great crosses, one of which led to Soldado bringing out a great save (but wrongly flagged offside), and two fantastic 40-yard diagonals second half, one to Townsend that led to Sigurdsson striking the crossbar and the latter to Lamela in time added on that led to Paulinho's goal.

Had it not been for Naughton's contribution we would simply not have won that game. :ross:
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Hmm, is that truly true? Perhaps he was involved in those moves, but was he really key to those moves, I don't remember that at all.

I felt Naughton didn't get down the flank at all, because he is really a right back... but against Tromso he didn't get down the right flank at all, from right back, which indicates to me he is not that sort of player.

Surely against Tromso at home there is no better time to show your wing play, but he stayed back the whole game which closed down our right side completely when the other players came inside and we had no width.
 
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